January 21, 2014 in Science & Technology

What Does Human Taste Like?

Follow Michael Stevens for more: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce EXTRA INFO & LINKS BELOW! Guest Star: Elsie the cat. Music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and from http://www.audionetwork.com https://www.facebook.com/VsauceGaming FLAVOR NETWORK ARTICLE (the cool food network graphs): http://www.nature.com/srep/2011/111215/srep00196/full/srep00196.html Hygiene hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis Eating snot: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/this-man-wants-you-to-pick-your-nose-and-eat-it-57024/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_mucus http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/could-eating-boogers-be-good-you human meat CHART: http://i.imgur.com/1DjGj.jpg Calories in an entire human body’s worth of meat: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100511172804AAhPbOA Rick Gibson: http://www.rickgibson.net/perform.html Marco Evaristti: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2007/05/18/oukoe-uk-chile-artist-idUKN1724159420070518 http://www.vvork.com/?tag=can Other work by Evaristti: http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/helena-by-marco-evaristti Japanese genitals: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/asexual-mao-sugiyama-cooks-serves-own-genitals_n_1543307.html#slide=1019016 the tweet: https://twitter.com/ho_ch/status/188931954777919489 Cannibalism on Dutch TV show: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/20/dutch-tv-hosts-eat-each-others-flesh_n_1159829.html Cannibalism wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism Taste buds: http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Labs/Anatomy_&_Physiology/A&P202/Special_Senses/Smell_Taste/Smell_and_Taste.html William Buehler Seabrook: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2012/06/cannibalism_in_the_news_what_does_human_flesh_taste_like_.html http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/08/what-does-human-flesh-taste-like.html site based on food networks and flavor ‘principles’: https://www.foodpairing.com Orange juice and